AIBU to think that Boris should resign now?

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Today it has been revealed that in May 2020 invitations were emailed to (allegedly) 100 Downing Street staff, for a garden party. This party happened during the first lockdown, when many people could not visit their elderly relatives, even on their death beds, due to the lockdown rules. The email was sent by one of the PM's top people, and stated that people should "bring their own booze and enjoy the sunshine". Today Boris has been conspicuous by his absence.

I think this is the final straw and shows a lack of judgement and absence of moral fibre. Enough is enough - he should resign and if he doesn't do it then his own party should force him to go.

AIBU?

Rosie1959
“The choice of PM is not down to anybody but members of the Conservative party”

And look at the mess that has got the country into.

If the Tories believe he's more of a liability than an advantage to them, he'll go. If he's still useful, he'll stay. For them, being in power is all that matters. I am gobsmacked he's got this far to be honest, but I am convinced he's actually made of Teflon. He's certainly determined to cling on at any and all costs. They'll have to prise his fingernails off the door to no. 10.

And still we have 6% saying he shouldn't resign, and some of those saying they can vote Tory "because they're not Labour". Jesus wept. Other parties are available. What does this oaf have to do?!

YANBU but he's so arrogant he won't resign

Vote of no confidence triggered if 54 Tory MPs send letters to the 1922 Committee. Surely more than 54 of them are angry enough.

I remember someone coming on here and saying that 'Next door are having a bloody garden party', I didn't realise that it was Rishi Sunak.

@ParsleySageRosemary

^this.

Here's Rishi Sunak's wikipedia entry, covering his family and personal background. If we think Boris Johnson is unrepresentative and remote from ordinary people, Rishi Sunak is far far worse. How can an intercontinental jetsetter, child and grandchild of intercontinental jetsetters, ever begin to comprehend the plight and interests of miners' grandchildren in Wigan, Newcastle and Mansfield? There's no way he can be considered a fit prime minister for the ordinary British people.

Boris Johnson is a dickhead but he's never been a Tory or had political convictions. He just wants to be liked and tries to be all things to all people (he's a lot more tax and spend than any previous Tory PM).

As a party they'd sell their own mother for power so they tolerated him as the English are gullible enough to be hoodwinked by an Etonian toff as it's a nation of forelock tuggers.

His replacement would actually be a Conservative.

YANBU

I don’t think he will go there isn’t anyone lined up to take his place.

It’s always been known he is a ruthless liar it’s nothing new just the list gets longer abs this particular lie is so painful to hear to so many people.

He just wants to be liked and tries to be all things to all people

I don’t think he necessarily wants to be liked, he wants people onside so he’s not scrutinised or asked questions.

Yes agree he isn’t particularly traditional in his Conservative polices

I really wouldn’t be surprised he he came back from this to spend degree (though the party will absolutely not win an election with such a majority as in 2019) there are still many people who are not bothered by this (not on MN)

And we are all aware this is led by Dominic Cummings campaign against Boris Johnson a man who himself was more than happy to not live by the rules. I would rather it was a campaign within the party to reflect bad leadership.

ParsleySageRosemary
Here's Rishi Sunak's wikipedia entry, covering his family and personal background. If we think Boris Johnson is unrepresentative and remote from ordinary people, Rishi Sunak is far far worse. How can an intercontinental jetsetter, child and grandchild of intercontinental jetsetters, ever begin to comprehend the plight and interests of miners' grandchildren in Wigan, Newcastle and Mansfield? There's no way he can be considered a fit prime minister for the ordinary British people.

Your link doesn't work - is that deliberate?
Rishi Sunak's parents worked as an NHS GP and a pharmacist. They obviously worked hard to pay school fees and sent their son to a posh school - where he became head boy on his own merits.

child and grandchild of intercontinental jetsetters

From another source -
[His] Punjab-born grandfathers emigrated first to East Africa, then to Britain in the 1960s with their families, and got administrative jobs. His “nanaji” (maternal grandfather), says Sunak, received an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) “after decades and decades” working for Inland Revenue, the tax office.

Tory voters like aspiration.

I see ‘cut and paste’ Clavinova has swooped in from Conservative HQ. She must get an alert.

Well at least Sunak - with his billionaire FIL and house in Santa Monica - won't be bitching about not being paid enough and disappearing off to write books on Churchill.

And presumably he can pay for his own wallpaper.

I suspect it is unusual for a GP & pharmacist to be able to pay for 3 children to go to Winchester though (Years 12 & 13 cost £30k per annum!)

I don’t want Sunak to be the next Tory leader he will have a good chance against Labour

I think Jeremy Hunt will put himself forward he has the arrogance to believe he can carry the huge majority over to the next election. And the Radio 4 mispronouncing of his name will get some air time

I don’t think he will go there isn’t anyone lined up to take his place.

It's not stopped Truss from being on manoeuvres for the post.

I suspect it is unusual for a GP & pharmacist to be able to pay for 3 children to go to Winchester though (Years 12 & 13 cost £30k per annum!)

His sister didn't attend Winchester College for obvious reasons. How big an age gap between siblings?

I think a few will half heartily but they will need backing from a number of MP’s

I very much doubt Truss will get much backing

I thought Liz Truss is the favourite among Tory back benchers isn’t she? Also polls before Christmas ranked her ahead of Sunak?

There were also press reports she had been wining and dining Tory backbenchers at a Mayfair club? Plus there’s allegedly already a Liz for leader WhatsApp group?

@Clavinova

I suspect it is unusual for a GP & pharmacist to be able to pay for 3 children to go to Winchester though (Years 12 & 13 cost £30k per annum!)

His sister didn't attend Winchester College for obvious reasons. How big an age gap between siblings?

Nothing wrong with anyone attending a public school but when you are a billionaire, then its obviously very difficult to relate to ordinary peoples daily struggles.

As for aspiration? no one seems to have any love for Angela Raynor, a woman who really has pulled herself up by her boot strings... wrong sort of aspiration obviously, should have known her place....

Couldn't really see Sunak changing an elderly persons incontinence pad.

Hasn’t she received too much mocking in the press

I think it’s more likely to be Sunak or Hunt

According to the FT, Sunak is favourite, followed by Truss.

I recall the time when Heseltine was favourite for PM, but he never made it.

Truss is very popular amongst her peers. She's been holding regular drinks and social dos to woo them.
Then of course there's the restaurant bills and all of that.
I can't abide her, she seems to spend her time doing photo ops, there's one of her looking like the Queen posing next to a world globe.
Still... if she gets in before a GE, that might see the tories out.

Boris Johnson doesnt control the country.

LibLabCon is practically all the same party.

We are nothing more than a colony of the USA and a slave to their financial hegemony.

Luckily there is change ahead.

Completely agree, they all should go and be replaced by a completely new government.

Head in hands reading this.

Are the suggested replacements really the brightest and best that this nation has to offer? Despair.